P Uthayakumar highlights the risk Mitra is facing in an open letter to the PM.
The Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit is at risk of heading in the same trajectory as the previous government's Socioeconomic Development of the Indian Community , said Hindu Rights Action Force .leader P Uthayakumar said Mitra was currently only indulging in"Describing Sedic as an"Umno-MIC era political ploy," Uthayakumar said the federal government should not repeat such a programme, but instead aim to fulfil its election pledges to the Indian community.
According to the manifesto, the fund would be modelled after Singapore's successful Singapore Indian Development Association fund established in 1991. In his letter, Uthayakumar also urged the prime minister to revisit Hindraf 2.0's letter on May 28, 2018, which contained 25 recommendations that would help create 100,000 business opportunities for the B75 in the Indian community every year.Uthayakumar's letter was in response to a news report citing Mitra economic and career deputy director K Jeevan, who said that the federal government had allocated RM100 million for the unit.
Coincidentally, Uthayakumar's younger brother P Waythamoorthy is the cabinet minister in charge of Mitra.
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